Reding Douglas J, Fischer Virginia V, Berg Richard L, Lappe Karen A
Marshfield Clinic, WI, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2004;9(2):291-305.
The project goal was to collaborate with veterinarians in delivering skin cancer information to a farming population. Two interventions and a control were utilized: in nine Wisconsin counties veterinarians delivered education materials as part of routine dairy herd health visits, veterinarians in nine additional counties provided client lists so education materials could be mailed, and veterinarians in nine control counties provided client lists but farmers received no education materials. A questionnaire was administered by phone to a random sample of farmers in each group, assessing knowledge, sun protection attitudes and behaviors, acceptance of veterinarians in a human health education role. Farmers responded quite favorably to veterinarians in this role. Veterinarians can be regarded as useful agents to disseminate health information to isolated rural populations.
该项目的目标是与兽医合作，向农业人口提供皮肤癌信息。采用了两种干预措施和一个对照组：在威斯康星州的九个县，兽医在常规奶牛群健康检查中发放教育材料；在另外九个县，兽医提供客户名单以便邮寄教育材料；在九个对照县，兽医提供客户名单，但农民未收到教育材料。通过电话对每组中的农民随机样本进行问卷调查，评估他们的知识、防晒态度和行为，以及对兽医在人类健康教育角色中的接受程度。农民对兽医在这一角色中的反应非常积极。兽医可被视为向偏远农村人口传播健康信息的有用媒介。
